In a context of “ impending war In Ukraine, pending Emmanuel Macron’s new phone call to Russian President Vladimir Poutine, at 1OHTU, the Quai d’Orsay renews this Sunday morning its call on the French to leave Ukraine without delay. ” We clearly recommend that our compatriots whose stay in Ukraine has no compelling reason to leave the country “, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Sunday newspaper, Jean-Yves Le Drian pointing around Ukraine a very significant assembly of Russian offensive forces which makes possible at any time a rapid and brutal intervention on Ukrainian territory “.
Touraine and Guigou vote Macron
Two more blows for Anne Hidalgo. Two former socialist ministers support not the socialist candidate for the next presidential election in France, but Emmanuel Macron. ” The useful and responsible vote is Emmanuel Macron “, says Marisol Touraine to the Parisian Sunday. According to François Hollande’s former Minister of Health, the French Socialist Party “ failed to use the last five years to bounce back and bring new ideas she told this newspaper.
Another former socialist minister to join – unsurprisingly – the still no candidate Emmanuel Macron, Elisabeth Guigou. According to The Sunday newspaper“ not only “Lionel Jospin’s former Keeper of the Seals supports Emmanuel Macron, but in addition, ” she works with her campaign team. »
“Barkhane”, the lessons of a defeat
In Mali, the week was of course marked by the announcement of the withdrawal of the French military force “Barkhane”. And the weekly press draws up the first assessments. As summarized La Croix-L’Hebdo“ Emmanuel Macron drew the consequences of the setback recorded by France in Mali (where) the interventionism of past decades has fueled frustration and hostility “. In Mali, as elsewhere in Africa, the democratic system is not necessarily perceived as the most efficient or the least corrupt “, valued La Croix-L’Hebdo.
Even before the official announcement of the withdrawal of Barkhane the weekly Marianne took stock of this commitment, which ended, for France, with “ a frank political defeat », Estimates this magazine, according to which, « all things considered, in Bamako, but also in N’Djamena, Niamey or Ouagadougou, the departure of “Barkhane” has, for part of the population, the same value as that of the Americans from Saigon or Kabul “. If the “Serval” operation resulted in ” a real success », Marianne considers that, for lack of a political solution in Mali, “Barkhane” has turned to a military operation “ ultimately quite inefficient “. Of these two external military operations, the first maintained the illusion of grandeur » ; the result of the second recalls that the France-Africa summits, even ripped off in a pseudo civil society way, belong to the past », considers Marianne.
A duck under the influence
A spy at Chained Duck. Revelations on the activities of the shade of Jean Clémentin, former director within the drafting of the irreverent palmipède of the French press, and which was in fact an agent of the secret services of Czechoslovakia. Under the pseudonym ” pipa », Jean Clémentin, one of the « large feathers ” of the satirical weekly, has long been ” paid by the Czechoslovak secret service “, delivering to them” almost 300 notes », and publishing « on order » of « fake news ” in the columns of the satirical weekly, reveals The Obs.
In a documented A file of “ evidence “which he describes as” formal », The Obs reveals that, from 1957 to 1969, Jean Clémentin was “ a paid spy from the Czechoslovakians, therefore from the Soviet camp “. Believing that this colleague has ” does honor to his pseudonym – which means ” faucet » in Czech – The Obs points out in passing that the sums of money » received in return by Jean Clémentin enabled him in particular « to buy a house in Meudon », near Paris, as well as a car, a Citroën 2 CV!
Among other false information published by Jean Clémentin in The chained Duck under the pen name of “Jean Manan”, an article on the kidnapping, on October 29, 1965 in Paris, of Mehdi Ben Barka, aiming to accredit the thesis according to which ” the US Secret Service (was) involved in the kidnapping of this Moroccan opponent, who has never reappeared since, reports The Obs. Contacted by this weekly, Jean Clémentin, now 98 years old, did not wish to answer his questions.